Arne Teiwes, Process Technology Food, Feed & Fine Chemicals / New Technologies – Technology Development at Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH, will give a lecture on “Fluid Bed Drying – Equipment and Applications”. This will be part of the 4-day program around fundamentals and applications in drying technology.
In his lecture Mr. Arne Teiwes will give a comprehensive overview of the principles and applications of fluidized bed drying processes from a practical point of view. The discussion will encompass the fundamentals of drying in fluidized beds, as well as a range of specialized drying and particle formulation processes, including spray granulation, coating, and agglomeration in fluidized beds. The lecture will emphazise the essential principles and practical applications of various types of fluidized bed drying processes at different scales. It will also address relevant considerations regarding upstream and downstream processing equipment, offer practical insights, and provide illustrative examples of full-scale equipment. In addition to the classic applications, the latest developments and other possible application areas of fluidized bed drying are also highlighted.
Course topics
Almost every material used in solid form (from foods to pharmaceuticals, from minerals to detergents, from polymers to paper, from raw materials and commodities to highly formulated specialties) is dried during production. Drying technology is, therefore, a continuously developing field with various challenges referring to process design, development, operation and automation, to equipment selection, development and use, to energy consumption as well as to the preservation or even creation of desired product properties. The purpose of the course is to provide the essentials of modern drying technology to the participants in a broad but compact way, at a high but understandable level close to practice, including:
- Fundamentals of drying technology
- Properties of wet air, capacity of convective dryers
- Moisture measurement
- Drying kinetics of single particles or droplets
- Major drying processes: Equipment, dryer design, scale up
- Special drying processes and applications, energy demand
- Laboratory work (guided exercises and demonstrations)
- Tutorials (guided practical computation and simulation)
Target audience
The course is designed for people from various backgrounds (engineers, chemists, food and pharmaceutical technologists) and with different levels of experience, who need to understand the fundamentals of modern drying technology and apply them to produce better solid / particulate products with more efficient and energy saving drying processes. The course language is English. Since 2014, the course has been successfully conducted, with numerous and great participation from industry over these years.
Course program
Further information on this topic and related topics can also be found in the following publications:
Published article: ‘Drying liquids – Selecting the best technology for nutraceuticals’ PDF, English
Published article: ‘How to Tame Recalcitrant Ingredients with Technological Processes’ PDF, English
Published article: ‘Process Technologies to Optimize Detergent Manufacturing’. PDF, English
Published article: ‘Contract manufacturing by fluid bed and spouted bed technology: Which is better, continuous or batch process?’ PDF, English